Gain the Edge! Negotiation Strategies for Lawyers, Featuring Martin E. Latz

MCLE Credits: 6.0
Ethics Credits Included: 1.0

Tuesday, October 24, 8:30 a.m.–3:45 p.m. ET
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Wednesday, October 25, 8:30 a.m.–3:45 p.m. ET
MCLE Credit: 6.0 (Ethics: 1.0)
Live-Interactive Credit: 6.0 (all dates, all formats) Live Interactive MCLE Credit Symbol
Designation Credit: 6.0 Trial Practice/Litigation, 1.0 Ethics (Designations Information)
Registration Fees:

Live on Site: $319 regular registration
Live on Site: $339 on-site registration
(if space is available)
Webcast: $319

Information

Why Attend?

Renowned negotiation expert Martin E. Latz has trained more than 100,000 lawyers and business professionals around the world to negotiate more effectively.

  • Learn Latz’s 5 Golden Rules of Negotiation
  • Explore powerful agenda-control techniques and tactics to generate creative solutions
  • Observe and analyze a negotiation simulation led by Latz

YOU NEGOTIATE EVERY DAY. In fact, your ability to effectively negotiate may be the most critical skill you possess. Yet most negotiate instinctively or intuitively. This seminar will help you approach negotiations with a strategic mindset.

And make no mistake—no matter how much you’ve negotiated, you can still learn more effective techniques. Adding that one new tactic may be the difference between winning and walking away empty-handed.

Martin Latz is one of the nation’s leading experts and instructors on effective negotiating techniques. A Harvard Law honors graduate, Mr. Latz will help make YOU a more effective lawyer.

15 Skills You’ll Learn

  1. Latz’s 5 Golden Rules of Negotiation
  2. Ways to gain leverage when seemingly powerless
  3. Strategies to get past “No” when all appears lost
  4. First-offer dynamics—when to make it and when to wait
  5. Secrets to success in emotionally charged negotiations
  6. Powerful agenda-control techniques
  7. Deadline and timing tips
  8. Where to use competitive techniques vs. problem-solving strategies
  9. Tactics to generate creative solutions
  10. How to get power with effective information gathering
  11. When to share information—and when to keep it
  12. When to hold—and when to fold
  13. Ways to deal with untrustworthy adversaries
  14. How to keep options open while building future relationships
  15. The difference between “puffery” and unacceptable lying

Bonus! Attendees will also receive an e-mail subscription to Latz’s monthly negotiation column so you will never stop honing your skills.

“An exceptionally knowledgeable and animated speaker—thoroughly engaging and notably adept at integrating into his presentation specific topics suggested by the CLE participants.”

Options for Attending the Seminar:

On Tuesday, October 24, this program will be presented live on site in Richmond/Innsbrook, where people may attend in person, as well as virtually via live-interactive webcast.

On Wednesday, October 25, this program will be presented live on site in Chantilly only, with no virtual attendance options.

ATTENDING IN PERSON ON OCTOBER 24?

The Bobzien-Gaither Education Center in Richmond/Innsbrook is our new state-of-the-art facility designed with your safety in mind. It features a Centurion air filtration system, which quickly and effectively eliminates viruses and bacteria. Additionally, the facility is thoroughly cleaned before each seminar, and face masks and hand sanitizer will be available.

COVID-19 POLICY FOR LIVE-ON-SITE ATTENDANCE

By attending a live-on-site Virginia CLE® seminar, you acknowledge the health risks associated with COVID-19 and that you MUST follow all Virginia CLE® COVID-19 policies. You may NOT attend a live-on-site program if you have tested positive for COVID-19, if you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, or if you are under any self-quarantine orders per CDC guidelines.

 

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Registration Deadlines:
Webcast: 10 minutes prior to seminar. If you register for a webcast the day of the seminar, your e-mail receipt will include a link to launch the seminar and download the materials.
Live on Site: Online registration ends at 11:59 p.m. the day preceding the seminar
Walk-in registration is permitted on a space-available basis

Cancellation Policy: Cancellation/transfer requests will be honored until 5:00 p.m. the day preceding the seminar. You will, however, be charged $90 if you cancel or transfer your registration to a different seminar after the link to the materials has been e-mailed by Virginia CLE.

Full refunds or transfers are available up to two days after a webcast in the unlikely event that you experience technical difficulties.

MCLE Credit Caveat: The MCLE Board measures credits by the time you spend in attendance. If you enter a seminar late or leave it early, or both, you must reflect those adjustments accurately in the credits you report on your credit reporting form. A code will be given at the end of the seminar, which must be written on your MCLE form.


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Schedule

COURSE SCHEDULE (October 24 and October 25) (Eastern Time)

8:00 Registration
8:30 Introduction—The “Car Negotiation Story”
8:40 Discuss Latz’s Golden Rules of Negotiation, including
  • Setting aggressive—yet realistic—goals
  • Information is power—so get it!
  • Increasing leverage by strengthening your alternatives
10:00 Break
10:15 Discuss Negotiation Strategies, including:
  • Using objective criteria with “tough negotiators”
  • Using timing to your advantage
  • Designing offer-concession strategies
  • Controlling the agenda
11:30 Lunch (provided at live-on-site programs)
12:15 Prepare for Negotiation Simulation, including:
  • Learning information-gathering techniques
  • Analyzing interests vs. positions
  • Creatively generating options
12:45 Negotiation Simulation

Remote attendees will watch a group during the simulation and be able to comment or ask questions during the debriefing
1:15 Analyze Negotiation Simulation, including
  • Evaluating lessons learned—what worked and what didn’t
1:30 Negotiation Ethics—Part I, including discussion of The Misrepresentation and its:
  • Morality—is it right or wrong?
  • Ethics or legality—does it cross the legal or ethical line?
  • Effectiveness—does it work?
2:00 Break
2:15 Discuss Negotiation Strategies, including:
  • Problem-solving vs. competitive strategies
  • Impasse-breaking strategies
  • Countering “negotiation games”
3:15 Negotiation Ethics—Part II, including discussion of The “False Promise” Scenario and its:
  • Morality—is it right or wrong?
  • Ethics or legality—does it cross the legal or ethical line?
  • Effectiveness—does it work?
3:45 Adjourn
  • Sign-in for live seminar attendees in Richmond on October 24 and Chantilly on October 25 begins at 8:00 a.m.
  • Q&A will be handled via chat room for Webcast attendees on October 24.

Faculty

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Martin E. Latz, Latz Negotiation / Scottsdale, AZ

Renowned negotiation expert Martin E. Latz, Founder of Latz Negotiation, has trained more than 100,000 lawyers and business professionals around the world to more effectively negotiate, including in Bangkok, Beijing, Brussels, Hong Kong, London, Prague, Seoul, Shanghai, and Singapore.

An Adjunct Professor—Negotiation at Arizona State University College of Law from 1995 to 2005, Latz has also negotiated for the White House nationally and internationally on the White House Advance Teams.

Latz—a Harvard Law cum laude graduateisthe author of Gain the Edge! Negotiating to Get What You Want and his bestseller The Real Trump Deal: An Eye-Opening Look at How He Really Negotiates. He has also appeared as a negotiation expert on CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and FOX and in many national publications, including USA Today, Politico, US News & World Report, The Christian Science Monitor, The Economist, South China Morning Post, and many more. He writes a monthly negotiation column that appeared for many years in The Arizona Republic and that now is e-mailed to almost 40,000 readers per month.

For more on Latz, visit www.LATZNegotiation.com.

Locations, Dates and Fees

LIVE REGISTRATION FEES (Lunch included)

$319 regular registration
$339 on-site registration (if space is available)

WEBCAST REGISTRATION FEE: $319

LIVE LOCATIONS AND DATES

RICHMOND/INNSBROOK / Tuesday, October 24
Bobzien-Gaither Education Center (Google Map)
4801 Cox Road, Suite 108
Glen Allen, VA 23060

CHANTILLY / Wednesday, October 25
Holiday Inn Chantilly-Dulles Expo (Venue Website / Google Map)
4335 Chantilly Shopping Center
(703) 815-6060


Virginia CLE® will provide live-on-site attendees a 50% discount off any single Virginia CLE® publication purchased at the seminar site. Additionally, live-on-site attendees will receive a coupon code for 50% off any single publication of their choice, which will be shared with live-on-site attendees at the seminar and in an email the day after the program. The code will expire two weeks after the seminar date.


Cancellation/transfer requests will be honored through 5:00 p.m. of the DAY BEFORE the seminar.  You will, however, be charged $90 for the materials if you cancel your registration for the seminar, or transfer registration to a different seminar, after the link to the materials has been e-mailed by Virginia CLE®.

If you have a disability that requires special accommodation, please contact Virginia CLE® well in advance of the program date.

If you have dietary restrictions, please contact Virginia CLE® at least 7 days before the seminar date.

Private recording of this program is prohibited.

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